When the senior George Bush quit the NRA

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May 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM

Here’s the text of George H.W. Bush’s letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association in 1995:

Dear Mr. Washington [then-NRA President Tom Washington],

I was outraged when, even in the wake of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of N.R.A., defended his attack on federal agents as “jack-booted thugs.” To attack Secret Service agents or A.T.F. people or any government law enforcement people as “wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms” wanting to “attack law abiding citizens” is a vicious slander on good people.

Al Whicher, who served on my [ United States ...

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Pat Cunningham

Here’s the text of George H.W. Bush’s letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association in 1995:

Dear Mr. Washington [then-NRA President Tom Washington],

I was outraged when, even in the wake of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of N.R.A., defended his attack on federal agents as “jack-booted thugs.” To attack Secret Service agents or A.T.F. people or any government law enforcement people as “wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms” wanting to “attack law abiding citizens” is a vicious slander on good people.